What's the best command line games available? I've got spare time now and again when waiting on system restores, etc and it's a bit obvious firing up descent... I know there are adventure games etc. available - what's the best to kill 5-10 minutes?

(It's my workstation, not a server I'm running it on, so I'm not bothered about installing games, etc)

Dave

look out for nethack, it has a command line version.

Yeah, nethack's cool... Who needs Unreal Tournament when you've got nethack.

zork, colossal caves

Can I play single player in nethack?

Yes thats when its at its best.
Strolling round a dungeon remoulding goblins heads with your +3 Sword of Justice. Ah the good old days!

That's the thing, in nethack, zork and colossal caves, you had to use your imagination because they had such minimalist graphics.

absolutly i remember playing colossal caves late at night and being so scared that my lamp batteries would run out before i made it to the vending machine, zork is just the same. yet both of these were text only. i never could get into nethack because it seems like you need a phd to read the map but i can understand how everybody feels about it.

a bit off-topic for console games but anyway, i found myself an amstrad emulator the other day and ive just started playing one of my favourite games of all time. ive taken some screenshots if you wanna see what a real game looks like

I was up in Aberdeen last week - Union Street's just like that!

Dave

I don't think there's a multi-player nethack...although if there is, I wanna try it!! Woot!

Are there any slashem type games like nethack that ARE multiplayer? Not like muds or anything...but ASCII wandering through dungeons and stuff....

Imagine ASCII/nethack style everquest...man that would be fun!

That would be cool cookies for the office ;-)